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2011 Fall Anime Thread - Bad Shows & Self Hating Nerds
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hosannainexcelsis
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Gintama 58
Shit just got real.
Shit just got real.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
ugh don't make me want to watch this pleaseDance In My Blood said:
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Romanes Eunt Domus
I'm a sucker for ponytails.Uchip said:
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Aigis said:
I would rather they redid the OP in the proper framerate to match the whole rest of the episode. It's dumb to improperly convert the whole episode's framerate to a non-native one to match the stupid OP. That's the sort of thing a dirty dog would come up with instead of just redoing the OP properly for the Blu-rays.
ZnT2 - 4:
Ahahahahaha, the Valliere family. Both of Louise's sisters are hilarious. Her oldest sister is even more tsun than she is, that's awesome. No wonder her engagement got broken off. Her other sister looks just like her only bigger, in more ways than one. Hurr.
Oh right, and that scene in the boat. Dawwwwwwww.
Okay, anyways, enough with this meeting Louise's family crap. Where's that story at?
Dantalian no Shoka 12
I feel like I watched the final episode of the first season of a show where I only knew about 5% of the backstory. That's how disconnected this series feels at times.
Like cosmic said, it wasn't really good or bad, it just was. Thankfully I liked the characters of Huey and Dalian enough to keep me going week to week.
(After hearing the "junk" line, I double checked and remembered that Miyuki Sawashiro is the voice of Shinku. Always amused by little references like that.)
And with this, all my non-ongoing currently airing shows are complete!
I feel like I watched the final episode of the first season of a show where I only knew about 5% of the backstory. That's how disconnected this series feels at times.
Like cosmic said, it wasn't really good or bad, it just was. Thankfully I liked the characters of Huey and Dalian enough to keep me going week to week.
(After hearing the "junk" line, I double checked and remembered that Miyuki Sawashiro is the voice of Shinku. Always amused by little references like that.)
And with this, all my non-ongoing currently airing shows are complete!
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Romanes Eunt Domus
That song is SO nineties.Geneijin said:
It's the pressed duck of animezeroshiki said:
Black Republican
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is ano hi mita anygood? 1st episode was good but kinda slow
So at GAF's enthusiastic recommendation, I'm slowly working my way through Code Geass. I'm about halfway through the first season, and I think things have just started really kicking into gear in the past few episodes. Enjoying it; not seeing it as god-tier yet, but it's certainly unpredictable.
I did bust out laughing when I realized
I did bust out laughing when I realized
Lelouch didn't learn a Very Important Lesson from killing Shirley's dad in that avalanche. It seemed like they were setting him up to think more carefully about the potential impact of his brilliant plans, with the personal impact of the massive casualties caused by the landslide... and then he blows up a giant boat full of people he'd promised to help.
hosannainexcelsis
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icarus-daedelus said:
Gintama knows how to get the most humor out of a low budget with its self-awareness. And it does bust out good animation occasionally for big fights. Overall, it's quite the achievement.
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Five seconds into the first episode of Bakemonogatari and there's the first panty shot. I can see why this was so popular.
A Black Falcon
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I think recommending that people should watch Garzey's Wing (the dub) has got to be my most popular recommendation, by a lot...
It's good, but doesn't change very much. Worth watching though, yes.Black Republican said:
Lelouch is a horrible, horrible person. And that's one of the major reasons why I dislike Code Geass, the main character is evil, pretty much, and does awful things... that's one of the same reasons why a lot of people like the show though, I think. Similarly, I don't really like all of the pointless, excessive destruction either, which is another one of the draws I would imagine.iammeiam said:
Aw, not related to the other Samurai Girls? Oh well, I'll probably try it anyway.Geneijin said:
I would ask for a Garzey 2, but that ending is so perfect that I don't know how they could top it... :lolicarus-daedelus said:
It's good, but not perfect, sure.
Everybody loves Garzey's Wing, it seems. And for good reason.
Crash Station
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hosannainexcelsis said:Gintama 58
Shit just got real.
I see you finally made it to Benizakura. Excellent. Prepare for the first real ride in the show.
Unknown Soldier
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ZnT2 - 5:
Oh, THAT's where the story went.
The combination of serious story and tsundere hijinks somehow manages to mesh well in this show. It helps that we were given a season before this one to get comfortable with the characters. I don't know why, but somehow it just works and works well.
Telecining is used to convert framerate. When you change the native framerate, it's a conversion. Telecining done for broadcast television is clever because you can extract the original framerate, that's how you perform 3:2 pulldown to convert 1080i/60 back to 1080p/24 for instance. When movies are broadcast on TV it's possible to record the broadcast and convert it back to 24p. HD DVD was actually encoded this way on the disc with metadata flags set which allows proper restoration of 1080p/24 from 1080i/60. Blu-ray is encoded natively as 1080p/24.
In the case of OreImo, they should have used 1080i/60 in order for proper 3:2 pulldown to be done at the source. Then a person using a 24p setup could extract the proper framerate. Instead they telecined it to 1080p/30 which then breaks 3:2 pulldown. I'm not familiar with conversion from 30p back to 24p, but I believe that there is nothing in the Blu-ray spec which allows you to perform the 5:4 pulldown required to restore 24p from 30p. So it's stuck that way. The framerate is permanently converted. And it's wrong.
Japan has the highest debt-to-GDP ratio in the industrialized world. There isn't a whole lot for Saya to protect, to be honest.
Oh, THAT's where the story went.
The combination of serious story and tsundere hijinks somehow manages to mesh well in this show. It helps that we were given a season before this one to get comfortable with the characters. I don't know why, but somehow it just works and works well.
Aigis said:
Telecining is used to convert framerate. When you change the native framerate, it's a conversion. Telecining done for broadcast television is clever because you can extract the original framerate, that's how you perform 3:2 pulldown to convert 1080i/60 back to 1080p/24 for instance. When movies are broadcast on TV it's possible to record the broadcast and convert it back to 24p. HD DVD was actually encoded this way on the disc with metadata flags set which allows proper restoration of 1080p/24 from 1080i/60. Blu-ray is encoded natively as 1080p/24.
In the case of OreImo, they should have used 1080i/60 in order for proper 3:2 pulldown to be done at the source. Then a person using a 24p setup could extract the proper framerate. Instead they telecined it to 1080p/30 which then breaks 3:2 pulldown. I'm not familiar with conversion from 30p back to 24p, but I believe that there is nothing in the Blu-ray spec which allows you to perform the 5:4 pulldown required to restore 24p from 30p. So it's stuck that way. The framerate is permanently converted. And it's wrong.
duckroll said:
Japan has the highest debt-to-GDP ratio in the industrialized world. There isn't a whole lot for Saya to protect, to be honest.
hosannainexcelsis
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Gintama 59
I feel the burning passion rise within me! If anything is going to give me a SHOUNEN HAATO, it's this show.
I feel the burning passion rise within me! If anything is going to give me a SHOUNEN HAATO, it's this show.
firehawk12
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Pander porn? Haha.icarus-daedelus said:
Watch the movie!hosannainexcelsis said:
Eh I thought episode 2 was pretty entertaining, all the costumes and shit. Ep 3 can be skipped though.Lafiel said:From episode 4 and onwards it's basically K-ON but with more varied story-lines and better character development! doesn't have the pretensions of episode 1.
Also you disappoint me, episode 1 was classy and awesome.
Dresden said:
Yeah, Kadokawa hasn't been doing too well lately. But there's always the probably fabulous, but certainly well selling
Regardless, I'd like to thank the broadcasters, publishers, sponsors and Kyoani for putting it out there.
*Realised that Pony Canyon was the major publisher for keionbu.
EDIT: ANN has a better translation.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Regulus Tera's Bakemonogatari Endurance Run 01: I never knew you could say nothing with so many
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The art style is fun to look at when stuff is actually happening. Sadly, tons of still shots and nothing of relevance happening in any of them. The weird introduction makes a great effort in disconcerting the viewer, at least.
I give it a 1/5.
The art style is fun to look at when stuff is actually happening. Sadly, tons of still shots and nothing of relevance happening in any of them. The weird introduction makes a great effort in disconcerting the viewer, at least.
I give it a 1/5.
Crash Station
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Regulus Tera said:Regulus Tera's Bakemonogatari Endurance Run 01: I never knew you could say nothing with so many words.
The art style is fun to look at when stuff is actually happening. Sadly, tons of still shots and nothing of relevance happening in any of them. The weird introduction makes a great effort in disconcerting the viewer, at least.
I give it a 1/5.
Yep, exactly my problem with the show. Doesn't get any better either :/
Unknown Soldier
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ZnT2 - 6:
Character development for Agnes. Serious business all around. Louise seemed like an afterthought in this episode, mainly because it was about serious business and she's not much use for that at the moment. Since they are now following the LNs pretty closely, I probably can't give credit to the show's staff for the way tsundere comedy and serious business story development seem to weave together so smoothy, instead that credit should go to the LN's author, Noboru Yamaguchi.
For those curious about the timing of the 4th and final season of ZnT, it's happening in early 2012 because Noboru Yamaguchi wants to finish the last 2 volumes of the ZnT LNs and also help with writing the final season. He recently underwent surgery to remove an advanced-stage tumor and is currently in remission from cancer. He wanted to finish ZnT for his fans and it seems this will be possible after all.
Character development for Agnes. Serious business all around. Louise seemed like an afterthought in this episode, mainly because it was about serious business and she's not much use for that at the moment. Since they are now following the LNs pretty closely, I probably can't give credit to the show's staff for the way tsundere comedy and serious business story development seem to weave together so smoothy, instead that credit should go to the LN's author, Noboru Yamaguchi.
For those curious about the timing of the 4th and final season of ZnT, it's happening in early 2012 because Noboru Yamaguchi wants to finish the last 2 volumes of the ZnT LNs and also help with writing the final season. He recently underwent surgery to remove an advanced-stage tumor and is currently in remission from cancer. He wanted to finish ZnT for his fans and it seems this will be possible after all.
Ok, I misread, you're still wrong about everything else though.A Black Falcon said:
What exactly is her degree of obsession with him really? I mean, in the show the only time you even see them together is when she wakes him up, they eat and her birthday. Sure that might seem like an obsessive relationship if you were on terrible terms with your own siblings but honestly that's kind of a distant relationship, hardly obsessive.A Black Falcon said:
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